Created specifically for the AQA A/AS Level English Language and Literature specification for first teaching from 2015, this enhanced digital resource offers stretch opportunities for the more able and additional scaffolding for those who need it. Providing full coverage of the specification, the unique three-part structure bridges the gap between GCSE and A Level and develops students’ understanding of descriptive linguistics and literary and non-literary stylistics, together with support for the revised coursework component and new textual intervention task. With rich digital content, this resource is accessible online and for download on tablet devices via the Cambridge Elevate app.

BEGINNING: 1. What does the study of language and literature mean at A Level? 2. Text producers and receivers

3. Mode and genre

4. Variation, register and representation

5. Narrative

6. Language level 1: Lexis and semantics

7. Language level 2: Grammar

8. Language level 3: Phonetics, phonology and prosodics

9. Language level 4: Graphology

10. Language level 5: Pragmatics

11. Language level 6: Discourse

12. Analysing texts

13. Literature and literariness

14. Becoming an investigator

DEVELOPING: Introduction to Telling stories

15. Remembered places

15.1 Introduction to the anthology

15.2 Why Paris?

15.3 Remembering places

15.4 Re-creative writing and Remembered places

15.5 Places, people and events

15.6 Metaphor

15.7 Genre

15.8 Bringing it all together: AS Level

15.9 Bringing it all together: A Level

16. Imagined worlds

16.1 The fantasy genre

16.2 Setting up fictional worlds

16.3 Characterisation

16.4 Point of view

16.5 Interpretations of fantasy

16.6 Bringing it all together: AS Level

16.7 Bringing it all together: A Level

17. Poetic voices

17.1 Introduction

17.2 The set texts and approaching the poetry anthology

17.3 Analysing poetry from a language perspective

17.4 Voice

17.5 Voice in poetry through time

17.6 Language and poetic voice

17.7 Bringing it all together: AS Level

17.8 Bringing it all together: A Level

Introduction to Exploring conflict

18. Writing about society

18.1 Literature, society and re-creative writing

18.2 Re-creative writing, from the exploratory and experimental to the targeted and strategic

18.3 Commentary: analytical explanations of re-creative writing

18.4 Bringing it all together

19. Dramatic encounters

19.1 Exploring conflict

19.2 Representing turn-taking

19.3 Representing speech and meaning

19.4 Exploring dramatic conventions

19.5 Psychological and social drama: Williams, Miller and Kinnear

19.6 Creating characters

19.7 Power and positioning

19.8 The importance of politeness

19.9 Exploring themes

19.10 Bringing it all together

20. Making connections

20.1 What is Making connections?

20.2 Choosing connections

20.3 Thinking about texts

20.4 Thinking about non-literary connections

20.5 Thinking about topics

20.6 Choosing methodologies

20.7 Data collection methods

20.8 Ethical considerations

20.9 Working with spoken data

20.10 How much literary and non-literary material?

20.11 Devising research questions

20.12 Selecting language levels

20.13 Analysis: structuring connections

20.14 Reading and writing critically

20.15 Academic conventions: References

20.16 Exploring connections

20.17 Keeping context in mind

20.18 Bringing it all together

ENRICHING: 21. Remembered places

22. Imagined worlds

23. Poetic voices

24. Writing about society

25. Dramatic encounters

26. Making connections

References

Index

Acknowledgements

AUTHOR(S)

Ian Cushing

Ian Cushing has taught at secondary schools and sixth forms in London for 5 years, and is a freelance author and course leader for English related teacher resources and teacher training days. He also sits on the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, and the UK Linguistics Olympiad Committee.